Comb-filing tool.



No. 677,I58. Patented lune 25,1901. J. KOENIG.

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ArnNr JOSEPH KOENIG, OF TWO RIVERS, ISCONSIN.

COMB-FLING TOOL.

SPECIFXCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,158, dated June 25, 1901.,

Application filed October 8,1900. Serial No. 32,377. (No model.)

Be it known that I, JOSEPH KOENIG, a citi- Zen of the United States, and a resident of Two Rivers, in the county of Manitowoc and State of lVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Comb-Filing Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Hy invention has for its object to facilitate and cheapen the manufacture of combs, especially aluminium toilet combs; and it consists in certain peculiarities of .construction and combination of parts hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

Figure l of the drawings represents a side elevation of a comb-filing tool in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a transverse section of the tool, indicated by line 2 2 in the preceding figure; and Fig. 3, another transverse section of said tool, indicated byline 3 3 in the first gure.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A indicates a base, and rising from this base, near its ends, are transverse standards B C, each of which has the upper portion thereof Vertically recessed at intervals to thereby form spacers b, the recesses being engaged by the lower portions of blades in the form of plates D, that are set edgewise and have their upper exposed edges file-cut similar to iioats or grails employed by comb-makers.

The ile-blades are shown supported in the recesses of standard O by a pivot-pin E, and spring-rods F, shown in connection with said standard, extend back in the recesses of standard B to form yielding supports for the free ends of said blades, the latter being guided in said standards. The spacing of the file-blades corresponds to the spacing of the teeth of combs to be filed, and in practice the comb-teeth are inserted between said blades as far as the cuts between teeth will permit. A comb G, positioned on the tool, is held in slanting position and reciprocated by the operator, whereby the nie-edges of the blades are caused to reduce the sharp edges that occur at the upper ends of the cuts be#- tween the comb-teeth. As the blades have independent yielding resistance to a comb under pressure thereon, they automatically accommodate themselves to depth of cuts be'- tween comb-teeth, the exposed file-edge of each blade being effective in proportion to the tension of its spring-support.

By employment of the tool herein set forth I economize time and labor in the manufac ture of combs by substituting a gang of leblades for a single iloat or grail, and while I have shown one practical form of improved comb-filing tool it may be more or less varied invmatters of structural detail without departure from my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A comb-filing tool comprising a series of spring-resisted file-edge blades spaced apart to correspond to intervals between the combteeth. Y 2. A comb-filing tool comprising a plurality of standards having their upper portions vertically recessed at intervals in a transverse direction, and file-edge blades engaging the recesses of all the standards.

3. A comb-filin g tool comprising a standard having .its upper portion vertically recessed at intervals in a transverse direct-ion, leedge blades in the recesses, and spring-supports for the blades.

4. A comb-filing tool comprising a base, a pair of standards rising from the base and having their upper portions vertically recessed at intervals in a transverse direction, iile-edge blades having pivot union with one of the standards in the recesses thereof, and spring-supports forthe free ends of the blades.

vIn testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Two Rivers, in the county of Manitowoc and State of Tisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH KOENIG.

vVitnessesz W. J. WRIETH, J. F. MAGEE. 

